Brace Yourself: New Peter Molyneux Project Coming Soon
Posted by George Denison on May 24, 2012 in News | Comments Off on Brace Yourself: New Peter Molyneux Project Coming Soon

The first of Molyneux’s “22 Experiments” is due in 6 weeks.
Earlier this year, we reported that Peter Molyneux, the eccentric mind behind Fable and Black and White, had left Microsoft in an incident involving a chair and had gone on to found a new team called 22 Cans. Now we know a little more about 22 Cans after Molyneux explained what he’s up to in an interview with BeefJack.
22 Cans is working on a project called 22 Experiments, which 22 Cans will “release digitally on the journey onto the final product that we’re going to makeâ€, according to Molyneux. The first of these experimental projects should be released in “about six weeks”, and we are to expect “very very different, unusual, I think very intriguing things”.
Speaking at Game12, he explained further:
“I am fed up to the back teeth of consuming other people’s visions – of directors’ and screenwriters’ ideas of what a hero should be; of novelists writing stories that they think are good, but I think are rubbish. Why can’t we have stories about me? I want to have my own unique experiences. When I put my son to bed at night, the best story I can tell is a story that I make up, and that’s a story about his life. And he loves it. That’s the story I want. I don’t want another James Bond film, I don’t want another Avengers”.
He remained tight-lipped about what the experimental projects would entail, but he did offer some clues as to the direction they might be going. “I love this one thought, and I have experimented with this in previous games, that you find out more about yourself while being engaged with this experience than [you would] with anything else”, he said. “And we all love finding out about ourselves – whether it’s through personality tests, or someone turning around to you and saying X, Y and Z”.
Molyneux has a reputation for promising the world and offering substantially less in the finished product, but as long as we take his hyperbole with a pinch of salt then the 22 Experiments from 22 Cans might be something to get a little excited about. What do you want to see from the 22 Experiments? Let us know in the comments!